cream cheese sugar cookies

 i haven't written a post in forever. i kind of actually forgot i had a blog until gillian mentioned it the other day. i've been away for a while. not locked up or anything. i just checked my last post and noticed it was right before i went to sedona, az (i did not join a cult either), i went to the grand canyon for the first time, then i moved back home to brooklyn for about 3 months, then i moved to amarillo, tx. so this recipe is the second thing i baked since i've been here. the first thing was a chocolate meringue pie that came out awful! i baked these cookies because i wanted to use the siamese twin gingerbread man cookie cutters my friend amanda had given me. she purchased them from the mutter museum in philly, which is a place i tell everyone to visit even though i haven't been there myself. i also realized i don't bake cookies too often and i want to learn how to make them better.

cream cheese sugar cookies

*1 cup sugar

*1 cup butter, softened

*1-3oz pkg of cream cheese, softened

*1/2 tsp salt

*1/2 tsp almond extract

*1/2 tsp vanilla extract

*1 egg yolk

*2 1/4 cup flour

combine sugar, butter, cream cheese, salt, almond & vanilla extracts. beat until smooth then stir in flour. chill dough for at least 8 hours. preheat oven to 375 degrees F. on lightly floured surface, roll out dough 1/3 at a time at 1/8 inch thickness. refrigerate remaining dough. cut w cookie cutter and bake on ungreased baking sheet for 7-10 minutes. cool completely before frosting.

the only thing i changed with the recipe is that i used lemon extract instead of almond extract. i also make a cream cheese lemon frosting. these cookies were da bomb.